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...cops made a tiny mistake that evening, a small error of the sort that brings down empires: they failed to return Colbert's driver's license. (Ryan had thrown it away.) Colbert was about to move to Detroit, where he is now employed as a social worker, and he needed his Pennsylvania license to apply for one in Michigan. So, frightened and trembling, Colbert returned to the 39th headquarters the next day. "Here was a black guy complaining about two white cops to a white lieutenant," recalls John Gallagher, the duty supervisor that day. "It took some balls...
...serve grapes in dining halls, Stanford students in fact vote in each dining hall each year to decide whether grapes will be served. Harvard students needed to know what policies other colleges, especially those in California, have on serving grapes in dining halls. After a month of misinformation, an error box a day after the vote was too little and too late...
...This semester has been trial and error, my trial by fire," Ocon says. "Every day I try new things as I try to figure out what works. There are so many variables--it all depends on Bailey's mood or even things like the weather...
What originally seemed like jaywalking to this unsuspecting student, actually turned out to be a "bad error in judgment," which he said he hopes will deter other students from repeating his mistakes
Miller says he attributes these mistakes to "human error" and encourages students to bring any mistakes to his attention...